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Specializing in 19th- and 20th-century first literary editions in copies made singular by their provenance, binding, or other bibliophilic rarity, the bookshop also explores fields adjacent to literature.

1210 works

André Maurois
Études anglaises
Paris, Grasset, (November 7) 1927.
Deluxe copy on Madagascar paper
$360
Marc Leclerc
La Passion de notre frère le poilu
Paris, Ferroud, (October 20) 1917.
On Japan paper, with suite and watercolor
$840
Joseph Conrad
Typhon
Paris, Gallimard, (June 25) 1918.
Conrad through Gide
$720
Roger Martin du Gard
Devenir !
Paris, Ollendorff, [May 1909].
Martin du Gard's first book
$600
André Gide
Isabelle
Paris, Nouvelle Revue française, (May 29) and (June 20) 1911.
Isabelle in every state
$7,200
Henry de Montherlant
Pasiphaë
Tunis, Éditions de Mirages, coll. « Cahier de Barbarie », (April 24) 1936.
Signed presentation to Maurice Martin du Gard
$240
Antonio di Paolo Masini
Bologna perlustrata
Bologne, Vittorio Benacci, 1666.
A sumptuous 17th-century fan binding for the history of Bologna
$2,160
Maurice Genevoix
Forêt voisine
Paris, Flammarion, (May) 1933.
The author's own copy
$360
Jean Cocteau
Lettre autographe à Roger Nimier
No place, March 16, 1955.
Election to the Académie and dark humor
$840
André Gide
Isabelle
Isabelle pour "Les XX".
$2,500
J. M. G. Le Clézio
Voyage à Rodrigues
Paris, Gallimard, (February 6) 1986.
Signed to Maurice Nadeau
$600
Francisco Fabro Bremundan
Floro historico de la guerre movida…
Barcelona, en la impressa de Mathevat, 1684 et 1686.
The renewed power of the Habsburgs
$720
Jacques Delille
L’Enéide de Virgile
Paris, Jiguet et Michaud, 1804.
Mairet's lemon morocco binding
$360
Léon Trippault
L’Histoire et discours au vray du siege
À Orleans, Chez Olyuier Boynard & Iean Nyon, libraires, demeurans au Cloistre Sainte-Croix. 1606. Avec Priuilege du Roy.
Rare chronicle of the siege and deliverance of Orléans by Joan of Arc
$1,200
Jean de La Bruyere
Les Caractères de Théophraste,… dixième édition,…
Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1699.
Bearing the arms of Pierre Huet
$600
Jean Cocteau
La Fin du Potomak
Paris, Gallimard, (February) 1940.
Gide's own copy, inscribed
$960
Claude de Bourdeille
Mémoires de Monsieur de Montrésor [suivi de]
Cologne, Jean Sambix, 1664; Leyde, Jean Sambix, 1665.
First complete edition, in contemporary binding
$360
[PRIX GONCOURT]
Prix Goncourt 1955
The members of the jury signed on the verso: André Billy, Philippe Hériat, Armand Salacrou, Raymond Queneau, Pierre Mac Orlan, Alexandre Arnoux, Jean Giono, Maurice Garçon, Roland Dorgelès and Gérard Bauër. Excused: Colette, Roland Dorgelès and Léo Larguier.
$240
René Char
Fureur et Mystère
Paris, Gallimard, (September 14) 1948.
Char's central collection
$7,200
Henri Troyat
« Réponse au questionnaire de Luc Estang sur les écrivains mobilisés »
(First quarter 1940).
Literature and mobilization: what do soldiers read?
$180
Georges Bernanos
La Joie
Paris, Plon, (May 6) 1929.
Deluxe issue on China paper
$1,920
Guillaume Apollinaire
Chantre
Paris, Éditions du Capricorne, (December 31) 2003.
One of only 10 copies
$360
[Jean-Émile Laboureur]
Les Aventures satyriques de Florinde
Paris, Au Cabinet du Livre, (November 20) 1928.
Laboureur's modern first edition: one of five deluxe copies on Japan paper
$900
Paul Gavarni
Œuvres choisies
Paris, J. Hetzel, [1846-1847] & Garnier frères, [1848].
A very fine copy, with 320 wood-engraved plates
$1,800
André Gide
Le Voyage d’Urien
Paris, Mercure de France, (November 16) 1896.
Urien and Tityrus in the same boat
$960
Marguerite Yourcenar
La Couronne et la Lyre
Paris, Gallimard, (September 20) 1979.
Yourcenar's copy for Maurice Genevoix, with autograph card
$960
James Thurber & Albert Camus
La Dernière Fleur
Paris, Gallimard, (March 25) 1952.
Camus, Man and brotherhood
$480
René Char
Le Chien de coeur
Paris, GLM, (January) 1969.
Hors commerce copy on colored paper
$960
Julien Green
Ex-libris pour sa soeur, Anne
S.l.n.d.
A brother's bookplate for his sister
$120
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Saint-John Perse
Dakar, December 24, 1961.
Corrected typescript, the only known set
$1,200

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